Questions tagged [privacy]
Questions about the protection of people's (personal) information.
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Why isn't the German police allowed to use PimEyes (social network tracking via face recognition)?
I read about the capture of Daniela Klette, via Google Translate:
In Germany, the criminal police claimed that they were not authorized to use this type of AI [PimEyes], due to data protection ...
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What are some developed countries that have a laissez-faire approach to user data flowing abroad?
China has in recent years tightened controls on data and information,
especially data and information that flows abroad.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-make-holders-more-than-1-mln-users-...
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Has the UK government provided the "minimum standard of privacy and accuracy" that are required of a messaging service for ETEE to be banned?
The Guardian reports that the UK government will not require Ofcom to enforce the restrictions on End to End Encryption (ETEE) until two conditions are met:
the government has said the regulator ...
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What level of data anonymisation is the NHS federated data platform/Palantir using?
It is in the news that UK NHS patients will not be given the option of whether their medical data is processed by US spy tech firm Palantir. This is being justified by because their data will be ...
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Political countermeasures for "Web Environment Integrity"
It looks like Google is trying to enable the "Web Environment Integrity" API, which will allow web servers to determine if the browser has been tampered with, e.g., using an ad-blocker or ...
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To what extent is "right to privacy" related to "right to good name / reputation"?
There is a detail in Article 12 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights that I find interesting:
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy,
family, home or correspondence, ...
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What rights do I have with regards to legal identity? [closed]
This is how I can imagine the bargain you make as a citizen with your government.
If you want inclusion in the benefits of a state, you forfeit some of your personal freedom by agreeing to be limited ...
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Why did the EU give stronger "protections" to minors in the GDPR, considering that COPPA has had the effect of restricting those it tries to protect?
Quite a few years ago, the US passed COPPA, which imposes quite strict regulations on sites that collect information from children under 13. The end result was that many sites banned users under 13 ...
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Why are arrest records public in the United States?
As I understand, arrest records (records showing that someone was arrested by police) are public in the United States, at least in many states (see e.g. Are Arrest Records Public?).
However, it seems ...
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What is the political (moral) justification for terminating the employment of workers for moral reasons completely unrelated to their job? [closed]
In my country there was a recent moral panic, where it was discovered that a popular TV host had uploaded videos with private moments of his (now ex) girlfriend online.
After this event was made ...
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Why are real estate records public?
The government is very restricted on what information it may disclose about you and under what circumstances. For example, I can't look up your car's license plate number to find out who you are. I ...
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Privacy-wise what are risks of Israel-type deal to share anonymized vaccine data IF a country is using nationalized health plan?
Israel has one of the fastest Covid vaccine rollouts in the world right now.
To get it so many doses they signed a sweetheart deal with Pfizer to share anonymized, but highly detailed data with Pfizer ...
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Have there been any polls about reconsidering the secret ballot methodology?
Question: Have there ever been any surveys asking people if they think the secret ballot methodology currently used today is still a good idea in modern times?
Why I thought of this question for ...
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Is there any way I request a copy of any of my phone calls the US government has recorded over the years?
We learned through the Snowden revelations that the United States government was surveilling nearly every person in the United States and in a handful of other countries via drag-net methods.
I was ...
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What are the objectives of the TikTok ban?
Google collects temporal + location information of Android handsets by default and is only a subpoena away from US authorities. The current administration is concerned that China would be able to use ...
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